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FriendFeed, Facebook and the Insider Logroll
Yesterday the news broke that Facebook has acquired Friendfeed. It's way early in the process of figuring out what this means going forward, but until it is proven otherwise to me, I'm assuming that there is nothing good in this for me. I like FriendFeed as it is and have been touting it for over a...
read articleWhy I Will Block You on FriendFeed
Here's a primer to how to get blocked by me on FriendFeed. I used to try to engage with people with trollish tendencies, now I'm just blocking out of hand. I've crossed the "life is too short" threshold in dealing with it. I will block you out of hand, no warning or recourse or anything...
read articleSocial Media on a Timeout
I'm an impulsive guy and unlike a lot of people, I do better at cold turkey than tapering things. One day last spring I just decided to stop drinking diet coke and went from 3-6 cans a day to drinking maybe a dozen in the last year. Last fall I decided to stop using Twitter pretty much all at once,...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 4, 2009 - "The Start of Something Good"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for January 4, 2009. I play a song from the Jody Grind; I talk about the new year, about being too fat and deciding where to spend my time; I talk about how I am getting back to collecting comic books; I talk a little about Saul Griffith and...
read articleI Hate Twitter
I went for a long time resisting Twitter, then I joined and liked it for a good while. Eventually I grew weary about Twitter's downtime and disingenuity and their rolling back of the feature set. Meanwhile, I liked FriendFeed from the first time I used it and the value of it has consistently gone up...
read articleMicroblogs Need GUIDs
I'm listening to the 8/2/2008 episode of the Gillmor Gang where Steve is talking with Dustin Sailings of Twitterspy. As they are talking about Twitter and Identi.ca and such, a realization hit me. Because I know nothing about how any of these microblogs are implemented this might be naive and...
read articleThe Continuing Death of Twitter
So I haven't a created an original tweet over on Twitter - one that wasn't either housekeeping or a reply to someone else - in a month. That mode of interaction exists entirely on my Friend Feed account now. Any tweets that do happen are exhortations to get followers to move over to FriendFeed with...
read articleEpic Fail Whale
I hope this to be my last post about Twitter and FriendFeed for some time. My migration has finished and now I am completely on FriendFeed and completely off of Twitter. My Twitter social network has been completely disassembled. As I added people on FriendFeed I unfollowed them on Twitter and then...
read articleTwitter Migration Tweak
I updated my original post on how to leave Twitter to include this information, but I thought I'd make a new post as well so people see it. If you are pushing your FriendFeed entries to Twitter via TwitterFeed, you might want to use the feed of this format as the source to TwitterFeed:...
read articleThere Must Be 50 Ways to Leave Your Twitter
Here are details on how you too can get the hell away from Twitter, increase the functionality available to you and still not lose your whole social network. I hope at this point I have some credibility as a late adopter and as a person who does not jump at every new service that comes along. It...
read articleFriendFeed Waxes as Twitter Wanes For Me
I've hit the point where I'm really just totally sick and tired of Twitter. Long ago, I thought it was too frivolous to care about and last fall I gave in and joined. Over time I changed my mind and decided that I generally liked the concept behind it while still not being happy with large parts of...
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